Nicci Gerrard

With many others including Charlotte Bingham , Edwina Currie , Helen Dunmore , Nicci Gerrard , Wendy Holden , David Lodge , Val McDermid , Joanna Trollope , Lynne Truss , and Salley Vickers ,...

JW was a neighbour and friend of Adam Mars-Jones in the 1980s. Editor Nicci Gerrard was a longtime friend of JW 's until personal differences over Gerrard's review of Art and Lies caused a...

The book, considered uncharacteristic of FW 's writing, received mixed reviews. Nicci Gerrard , in The Observer, considered the characters thin, the plot maniacal and unreal, and the dialogue brisk and bleak. Gerrard commented...

Peach has argued that convenient critical labels such as magic realism can obscure the fact that AC 's non-realistic philosophical writing explores the actualities in which many of us live. To Peach, ACmay...

Reviewers were not enthusiastic about this novel: JW herself said they were eager to pounce.Peter Kemp in the Sunday Times found it unoriginal in theme and structural techniques, and noted that it contains...

Nights at the Circus, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize, remains AC 's best known work. The fact that it did not make the short-list (the Booker that year went to...

ST lived for all of her life in Leicester. Nicci Gerrard remembered her house there as crammed with objects, paintings on every wall, flowers in jugs, plants in pots, bowls and cups and knick-knacks...